Best anchorages and harbours in New England

3rd beach

Anchorage off Third Beach at Middletown, Rhode Island, on the west side of the entrance to the Sakonnet River, on sand and mud.

• Sheltered NW, W, SW, S, SE

Back Harbor (Sandy Bay)

Anchorage in Sandy Bay off Rockport, Cape Ann, with a sand bottom and the Sandy Bay Yacht Club 0.2 nm to the south-east.

• Sheltered W, SW, S, SE

Belden Point

Mooring field off the west side of City Island in Eastchester Bay, the Bronx, New York, on a mud bottom.

• Sheltered NE, E, SE

Block Island Hotel

Anchorage off Old Harbor on the east side of Block Island, Rhode Island, an artificial harbour formed by two breakwaters.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE

Blue Hill Inner Harbor

Inner harbour at the head of Blue Hill Bay in Maine, separated from the outer harbour by Parker Point and Sculpin Point.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE

Boston Waterboat Marina

A marina on historic Long Wharf in Boston inner harbour, the city's oldest continuously operating yachting facility.

Burlington

Mooring field off the Burlington waterfront on the Vermont shore of Lake Champlain, with a sand bottom.

• Paid
• Sheltered SW, W

Calf Islands

Day anchorage off the Calf Islands in Captain Harbor, fronting the Byram shore of Greenwich, Connecticut, in western Long Island Sound.

• Sheltered NW, N, W, SW

Carry Bay

Anchorage in Carry Bay off North Hero on Lake Champlain, Vermont, with a mud bottom and shelter from NW through SE winds.

• Sheltered NW, W, E, SW, S, SE

Casey's Marina

Full-service marina on Spring Wharf in downtown Newport, Rhode Island, with 35 berths and a fuel berth.

Cedar Island Marina

A large family-owned marina with about 400 berths on Clinton Harbour, Connecticut, off Long Island Sound.

Coecles Harbour

Anchorage in Coecles Harbour on the east side of Shelter Island in New York, ringed by tidal creeks and oak woodland, mud bottom.

• Sheltered W, SW, S, SE

Cementon Dock

Small creek-side dock on the Hudson River at Cementon, a hamlet of the Town of Catskill in Greene County, New York.

Duck Harbour Isle au Haut

Anchorage on the west side of Isle au Haut, Maine, within Acadia National Park, on a sand and mud bottom with shelter from N through E and round to SE.

• Sheltered N, NE, E, S, SE

Eaton's neck lighthouse

Anchorage off Eatons Neck at the entrance to Huntington Bay on Long Island Sound, New York. Mud bottom.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE

Great Harbor

Mooring field in Great Harbor at Woods Hole, the village at the south-western tip of Cape Cod, in Falmouth, Massachusetts.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, SW, S

Green Island

Anchorage off Green Island, a 48-acre Maine Coast Heritage Trust conservation island in the Merchant Row archipelago between Stonington and Isle au Haut.

• Sheltered NW, N

Hamburg Cove

Marina and RV resort in the Seabrook district of New Orleans, at the junction of the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal and Lake Pontchartrain.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE

Harpswell harbor - Stover's point bay

Anchorage off Stover's Point in Harpswell, Maine, set among the islands of Casco Bay on a mud bottom.

• Sheltered W, SW, S, SE

Hop-O-Nose Marina

Full-service marina on Catskill Creek at Catskill, New York, near Hudson River mile 112.

Hoppy's Landing

Anchorage off Hoppys Landing, by the causeway linking West Island to the mainland at Fairhaven, Massachusetts.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SE

Hull Bay

Open anchorage off the town of Hull, on the western side of Hingham Bay in outer Boston Harbor, Massachusetts.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, SW

Isle of Shoals

Anchorage at the Isles of Shoals, a small archipelago about 6 miles off the New Hampshire and Maine coast. Gosport Harbour lies between Star, Cedar and Smuttynose islands.

• Sheltered W, E, SW, S, SE

Lloyd Harbor

Sheltered harbour branching west off Huntington Bay on the north shore of Long Island, New York. Mud bottom, well protected from all directions.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE

Long beach point

Anchorage off Long Beach Point, the low sandbar that separates Orient Harbor from Gardiners Bay at the tip of Long Island's North Fork, New York.

• Sheltered NE, E, SW, S, SE

Ebenecook Harbour, Southport

Anchorage in Ebenecook Harbour on Southport Island, Maine, off the Sheepscot River, on a mud bottom with shelter from most directions.

• Sheltered NE, E, SE, S, SW, W

Mackeral Cove Beach

Cove on the east side of the isthmus that links Beavertail to the main body of Conanicut Island, Jamestown, in Narragansett Bay.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, SE

Majors Harbor

Anchorage on the south-east side of Gardiners Island, set on the east side of Gardiners Bay between the forks of eastern Long Island, New York.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, E, S, SE

Malletts Bay Anchorage

Anchorage on Lake Champlain off Burlington, Vermont, about 4 nautical miles north of Burlington Harbor Marina.

• Sheltered SE, S, SW

Matinicus Harbor

Harbour on the east side of Matinicus Island, the most seaward inhabited island of Penobscot Bay, Maine, 22 nm from Rockland.

• Sheltered NW, N, W, SW, S, SE